Strange installation problem

[eluser]ryantxr[/eluser]
[quote author="alpar" date="1187740745"]try turning persistent connections off from the config/database file, and see if that works. [/quote]

I did this. It did not work. Apparently, php_mysql.dll relies on another DLL (MPR.DLL) which requires MSJAVA.DLL and some other DLL (ADUxxx.DLL) which are not always installed by Windows. MSJAVA is the old Microsoft JVM. Therefore, php_mysql indirectly requires these DLLs. Because they are missing, php_mysql.dll cannot load. The short answer is that PHP MySQL does not just work out of the box on all Windows installations. I'm sure I can eventually get it to work but who has the time to figure that out? I need to work on my application.

[quote author="alpar" date="1187740745"]
(You should try Linux, i am using it exclusively(no dual boot) for development and i have no problem at all! I even got adobe DW (i use it for CSS+XHTML) install and runs perfectly )[/quote]

I do have a LINUX system. That is where I have Apache/PHP/MySQL running. This operates more like a server. My workstation is a Windows system and I wanted a local installation to make debugging faster. I'm not ready to give up the items I use that are only available on Windows. I have one or two more things I will try tonight until I let it simmer for a while.

This all came from trying to switch from Dream Weaver to Eclipse for PHP development. DW has such an easy way to push files out which eclipse does not have. I use Eclipse for Java development and I thought that if I could use one development environment for everything, life might be easier. Oh well.